Welcome to a two part special edition of our podcast: The Climate Crisis Panel.Campaigner and TV presenter Chris Packham chairs a special panel of scientists and activists to discuss the climate crisis.In Part 2, the panel talk about how fast f

The Climate Crisis Panel - Part 1

Nov 14th, 2019 1h 1m

Welcome to a two part special edition of our podcast: The Climate Crisis Panel.In part 1, campaigner and TV presenter Chris Packham chairs a special panel of scientists and activists to discuss the climate crisis.The experts discuss why the cli

Mirror Next Gen: Teenagers take control of the Daily Mirror

May 21st, 2019 27m 1s

MirrorNextGen is a ground-breaking project by the Mirror which has seen us hand over control of our print and online coverage for one day. It is a chance for a group of British teenagers to put the things they care about at the heart of the nat

A review of the year when politics lost leave of it senses

Dec 21st, 2018 49m 30s

In this final podcast of 2018 we look back at a tumultuous, gripping and febrile year in politics.There were resignations and rebellions.There were moments of madness and moments of goodness. There was dancing and dark plotting.Above all it was

Budget treat or trickery?

Oct 30th, 2018 29m 48s

Philip Hammond claimed his Budget meant austerity was coming to an end.There was more money for the NHS, defence and to help ease the roll out of the universal credit.And sprinkled on top of the spending spree was a new round of income tax cuts

Careers, confidences and conferences

Oct 4th, 2018 28m 34s

There were rows, rallies, parties and career-ending speeches.This year’s conference season saw Labour leave Liverpool on a high, the Conservatives suffer the blues in Birmingham and the Lib Dems struggle to be heard in Brighton.In the latest Ay

Corbyn builds a powerful case for change

Sep 26th, 2018 25m 50s

Jeremy Corbyn used his conference speech to sell his radical agenda to voters.The Labour leader made a persuasive case that his plans for renationalisation, handing power to workers and reshaping the economy were “common sense.”In this week's A

Vince Cable's long goodbye

Sep 18th, 2018 23m 23s

Vince Cable failed to rally the troops in a gaffe-prone and muted conference speech.The Lib Dem leader looked like someone on the way out as he addressed the faithful in Brighton.The only remarkable thing about his speech was his mangling of hi

Big Issue founder Lord Bird on Corbyn, "failure" politicians and the homelessness crisis

Sep 13th, 2018 35m 14s

Lord John Bird says he got into the House of Lords by “lying, cheating and stealing”.In this week’s Ayes To The Left podcast, the Big Issue founder revealed how he learned the skills to build his hugely successful career in prison.In a frank an

Where the hell are we with Brexit now?

Jul 10th, 2018 42m 42s

It has been an extraordinary few days of high drama, plotting and political turmoil.Theresa May was left fighting to save her career after the double resignation of Boris Johnson and David Davis.Her Brexit plans are now in doubt and she has bee

How to save the high street

Jul 4th, 2018 35m 45s

In the last year an estimated 50,000 retail jobs have gone. Major stores have closed while others such as House of Fraser and Marks & Spencer are slashing branches.Unless the decline can be reversed there are fears our high streets could become

The collapse of the centre left

Jun 28th, 2018 26m 47s

Across Europe the centre left is in trouble. Of the 28 EU states only six have a left-wing government and most of those are minority administrations.In the last elections the workers party in Holland came eighth.In the French elections the soci

UKIP's king of dark arts lifts the lid on 14 years with Nigel Farage

Jun 22nd, 2018 42m 50s

David Cameron once branded them "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists".Now UKIP face being something much worse - irrelevant.Where next for Nigel Farage's flailing anti-EU party just three years after it won 4million votes - helping push the

Inequality is bad for your mental health

Jun 7th, 2018 39m 1s

After the 2008 financial crash Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published one of the defining books on austerity.The Spirit Level showed how countries with the greatest inequality have higher rates of violence, imprisonment, drug use and obes

A model citizen

Jun 1st, 2018 53m 51s

Few will have heard of Neil Jameson but he is one of the most influential people in British.Neil is the founder and executive director of the community-based organisation Citizens UKAnd its campaigns have been instrumental in improving the live

The march of the robots

May 25th, 2018 31m 51s

Advances in AI and robotics will dramatically change our lives over the next few decades.Greater automation will affect not just how we work but if we work at all.And the use of artificial intelligence is revolutionising how companies hire and

Talk of the towns: the key battleground of the next election

May 16th, 2018 43m 40s

Towns used to be great places to live with a strong sense of community, thriving high streets, lots of green spaces and good local amenities.But while our cities are booming, the towns have become left behind. Too often our towns have ageing po

Are workers getting a fair deal?

May 9th, 2018 28m 39s

This Saturday will see tens of thousands of people march through London to demand a new deal for workers.The TUC rally has been organised to highlight how millions of people are stuck in low-paid, insecure and part-time jobs.Ahead of the gather

The new working class

May 2nd, 2018 32m 5s

There are millions of voters out there who have been ignored, abandoned and misunderstood.But they could hold the key to winning the next general election. They are, according to Claire Ainsley, the new working class.This new demographic is dif

14: Theresa May pays the price for the Windrush fiasco

Apr 18th, 2018 41m 44s

We have seen the best and worst of politics this week. There has been the Home Office shambles on Windrush and the searing debate in the Commons on anti-Semitism. The issues may be cause to despair but amid the gloom we have seen Parliament at

13: A political thriller

Mar 28th, 2018 25m 53s

In a special Ayes to the Left podcast the Mirror's Head of Politics, Jason Beattie, talks to Matthew Parkhill.Matthew is the writer, co-director and executive producer of the new TV series the Deep State starring Mark Strong.They discuss the in

12: The dark side of the Deep State

Mar 21st, 2018 28m 29s

Who really runs the country? Our politicians? Big business? The civil service?In this week's Ayes to the Left we look at the influence corporations, the military and the Establishment have on public life.America calls it the Deep State - the sh

11: Now we've all been short changed

Mar 13th, 2018 24m 41s

Philip Hammond delivered his Spring Statement and it lasted a measly 26 minutes.The Chancellor claimed the economy had turned a corner and growth was back on track.But do his claims stand up to scrutiny?In this week's Ayes to the Left podcast t

10: We are ready to take on the Establishment

Mar 7th, 2018 28m 9s

In America they call it the Deep State. In the UK we know it as the Establishment - the few thousand people who work in Whitehall, big business, the media and lobbying who shape how the country is run.They come from the same background, went to

9: John Major's Brexit broadside at Theresa May

Mar 1st, 2018 23m 35s

Former Prime Minister John Major has shed his mild-mannered image to deliver a blistering Brexit broadside at Theresa May's plan for Brexit.In an extraordinary blue-on-blue attack aimed at the PM, he roasted her negotiating red lines, as “not o